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Logging into Teams

  1. Navigate to portal.office.com and enter your UWaterloo email address

  2. Click Next and you will be redirected to a University of Waterloo sign in page

    1. Ensure your login address is still ‘userid’@uwaterloo.ca 

    2. Use your WatIAM password  

  3. Once complete, you will be redirected to the main Office 365 page. Click on the Teams button. 

Log in directly to Teams from your desktop browser

Log in at https://teams.microsoft.com/

Teams for Mobile

Download the  Microsoft Teams mobile app and log in with your UWaterloo email (NOT your friendly address) e.g. vcozzari@uwaterloo.ca not violet.cozzarin@uwaterloo.ca 

  • Once complete, you might be redirected to the main Office 365 page; click on the Teams button


Creating a Team and Channels

Teams

Please do not create a team yourself through IST - we would like to keep note of all of the Teams in Campus Wellness.
  1. Submit a ticket to us with the name you would like the team to have e.g. Counselling Services and the members you would like in it
  2. We will add you as an owner of the team 

Channels

Channels are dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations organized by specific topics, projects, etc.

You can create private channels which can be used to limit conversations to a subset of people within a team. For example:

  • Creating a separate work space for a group or project (e.g. a private channel for IT staff within your department's team)
  • Creating a separate chat space for users to discuss sensitive information (e.g. budgeting)

In order to create Channels within the team you must be assigned as one of the "owners" of the team

Standard Channel

  1. Click the 3 dots next to the title of your team 
  2. Click Add Chanel 



  3. Type in:
    1. Name of the channel
    2. Description (optional)
    3. Leave the privacy to Standard
    4. Check off Automatically show this channel in everyone's list 
  4. Click Add



  5. It should now be visible in beneath your teams name: 

All members of the team have access to this channel. 

Private Channel 

  1. Click the 3 dots next to the title of your team 
  2. Click Add Chanel 
  3. Type in:
    1. Name of the channel
    2. Description (optional)
    3. Under Privacy, click the drop down and select Private 
  4. Click Next



  5. Add in members of your team that you'd like to be in this private channel - you cannot add people who are not already added as members into the channel

  6. A lock icon will be next to your channels name, indicating it's a private channel. Only members of private channels can see and participate in private channels that they are added to.




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